What would you say to someone who says “The greenhouse effect can’t be real because the Second Law of Thermodynamics says something cooler can’t raise the temperature of something warmer”?

Sometimes people assert that the “greenhouse effect” can’t be true, because they believe the model involves heat flowing from a cool atmosphere to a warmer Earth’s surface, thereby violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Various sources of confusion seem to be present...
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